<p>I'm wondering what is meant by: "general area of interest" in the following prompt.</p>
<p>How do your possible career or professional plans relate to your planned course of study? Limit your answer to one page.
*If you are applying to the College of Arts and Sciences and are undecided about your major, indicate your general area of interest.</p>
<p>I am generally interested in the social sciences, but more specifically in economics. Are the social sciences <em>too</em> general?</p>
<p>I think they want as specific as possible, but if you’re only considering economics and not set on it, I’d mention econ but focus on the social sciences in general. I think they want to know more about what you want to do after college and how you’re preparing for that by transferring to UVa. Hopefully that’s true anyway, because it’s what I’m doing!</p>
<p>Sounds good to me! This is by far the hardest prompt I’ve had to write so far… I just keep getting stuck on it =/</p>
<p>Me too. I finished, but… let’s just say it’s not my best work. I was just very straightforward about my lack of future plans and I feel like that’s probably a bad thing!</p>
<p>Is there anyway I can read your essay? I’ve been trying for about two weeks and I hate everything I’ve put onto paper so far.</p>